Well. Things don't look good for my motor.
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Yes sir it is. I'll definitely keep a close eye on my oil filters from now on though. I still don't know how a hole got in the last one.
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id like to know how much oil it lost, i work at advance auto, youd be surprised how many people buy a quart of oil, go out, add it, come back in, get another, add it, ect, till they realize there was only 1 or 2 quarts in their motor out of at total of 5 or 6. i think most cars are designed to run with half of what they hold, they just hold more to keep the oil more clean.
from what ive always seen, add to full on the dipstick is a quart, so if the crosshatching stops and the dipstick keeps going for a ways you should be able to judge how much was in there.
my truck had like 50-60k on it this one day, i started it and it spat out a little plume of smoke. hasnt done it since then. odd.
usually that kind of smoke on start up is valve seals or something.
i would think that doing a fresh oil change it would take it a minute to get back in its groove. it probably got thrown up top to the valves really fast since it hadnt been getting much and crammed down in somewhere it shouldnt have been, and that was causing your smoking sometimes. that would be my guess.
just watch for oil consumption now.
from what ive always seen, add to full on the dipstick is a quart, so if the crosshatching stops and the dipstick keeps going for a ways you should be able to judge how much was in there.
my truck had like 50-60k on it this one day, i started it and it spat out a little plume of smoke. hasnt done it since then. odd.
usually that kind of smoke on start up is valve seals or something.
i would think that doing a fresh oil change it would take it a minute to get back in its groove. it probably got thrown up top to the valves really fast since it hadnt been getting much and crammed down in somewhere it shouldnt have been, and that was causing your smoking sometimes. that would be my guess.
just watch for oil consumption now.
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id like to know how much oil it lost, i work at advance auto, youd be surprised how many people buy a quart of oil, go out, add it, come back in, get another, add it, ect, till they realize there was only 1 or 2 quarts in their motor out of at total of 5 or 6. i think most cars are designed to run with half of what they hold, they just hold more to keep the oil more clean.
from what ive always seen, add to full on the dipstick is a quart, so if the crosshatching stops and the dipstick keeps going for a ways you should be able to judge how much was in there.
my truck had like 50-60k on it this one day, i started it and it spat out a little plume of smoke. hasnt done it since then. odd.
usually that kind of smoke on start up is valve seals or something.
i would think that doing a fresh oil change it would take it a minute to get back in its groove. it probably got thrown up top to the valves really fast since it hadnt been getting much and crammed down in somewhere it shouldnt have been, and that was causing your smoking sometimes. that would be my guess.
just watch for oil consumption now.
from what ive always seen, add to full on the dipstick is a quart, so if the crosshatching stops and the dipstick keeps going for a ways you should be able to judge how much was in there.
my truck had like 50-60k on it this one day, i started it and it spat out a little plume of smoke. hasnt done it since then. odd.
usually that kind of smoke on start up is valve seals or something.
i would think that doing a fresh oil change it would take it a minute to get back in its groove. it probably got thrown up top to the valves really fast since it hadnt been getting much and crammed down in somewhere it shouldnt have been, and that was causing your smoking sometimes. that would be my guess.
just watch for oil consumption now.
